Autographic register



1. Q. SHERMAN AND A. w. METZNER.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1919.

1,394,447. Patented 0st. 18,1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- JOHN Q. SHERMAN AND ALBERT W. METZNER, OF DAYTON, OHIO; SAID METZNEB ESSIGNOR TO SAID SHERMAN. a

' Application filed m a,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN Q. SHERMAN and ALBERT W. METZNER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Our invention relates to autographic registers wherein duplicate strips are fed over a tablet plate and like impressions made upon each strip by the operator writing on the top strip, and carbon paper transferring his written matter to the sheets beneath.

4 In machines of this type, it is not always desirable that the strips should be fed out in equal amounts, at every operation of the machine. One instance of this is where the machine is used for billing goods to customers, where the owner desiressome sort of shipping label to 'go on the goods. In such a case, it can readily be observed that the use of a special strip of paper in connection with the regular strips, together with a different amount of feed for the special strip, would provide a device which could be used for duplicating merely the address portion of the regular strips on the special strip.

different rate from the others, although all the strips receive a similar autographic iin rint. n the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective of the operating parts involving my invention shown in a broken away casing of an autographic register.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of two strips of paper illustrating the manner m wh ch the paper is arranged in connection with the invention.

The paper employed in the new machine is made up in strips, some of which have Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Oct. 18, 192i. 1919. Serial No. 309,853.

perforations along one edge and some of which have them along the other. Thus we employ the strips A, which haveregularly spaced round holes or perforations 2 along the right hand edge, and the strips B, which 1 have'like perforations 3 on the left hand edge. The strips are arranged in the manner shown in ig. 2 in passing through the machine, and according to our invention there are provided two sprockets having I regularly spaced teeth to engage the preforations, one of which sprockets engages the right hand paper, and the other of which engages the left hand paper, said sprockets revolving unequal amounts, in order to get, different sized sections for delivery from the machine.

Thus we provide the sprocket 4, having teeth 5 for the uppermost or ri ht hand strip A, and the sprocket 6 having t e teeth 7 for the underneath or left hand strip B. Y

A common shaft 8 serves to mount the two sprockets, the sprocket 4: being fast on the shaft, and the sprocketfi loose thereon. The shaft has an operating handle 8 and a pinion 9 thereon, both fast thereon, and another pinion or gear 10, which is fast to the loose sprocket 6, but'loose on the shaft.

From the pinion 9 fast on the operating .shaft 8, the pinion 10 is driven by the gear train, comprising the large pinion 11, the wide pinion 12 and the small pinion 13, which meshes direct with the pinion 10. All of the pinions 11, 12and' 13 are idlers, and the arrangement thereof is shown as illustrative of some method of conveniently driv-' ing the loose sprocket from the driving shaft, at a less speed than theshaft itself.

For changing the amount of feed of the strips B over the sprocket 6, with relation to the feed of the strips A over the sprocket 4c, thereneed be merely a change in the gear train above described.

It is the desired method 'of use of this mechanism to provide the strips A, which may be of the desired number and preferably of the normal size to be issued from the machine, with printing, to divide them 03 in sections of given length which respond to the amount that will be fed over the sprocket 4 during one complete revolution of the. operating shaft. The strips B, however, also of the desired number will be made up'ining and issuing difierentsized sections simulsmaller nnits said special or smaller units being ,of the length to respond to the feed over the limited movement of the sprocket 6.

Thus when in operation, the strips A will be fed out of the machine in full length strips, and the strips B will be of whatever length desired, as determined from the proportionate number of teeth of the gear train operating the sprocket 6. .By the blocking off of the transfer paper, or the use of partial width pieces of transfer paper, for the strip or strips B, any desired portion of the matter written on the full length tickets or sections can be transferred to the special strips. The particular purposes for the use of this mechanism do not form an essential part of this invention, but it is evident that for the. issuing of address slips, the device will be quite valuable. In such a use, the smaller transfer paper will be used to efiect a transfer of the marks made on the upper end only-of the strips.

For a plate to block off the lower markings on the full sized tickets (which will be uppermost), a thin metal plate 14; may be usedvwhich rests on the upper edge of the sides of the machine casing above the tablet top 15. This plate may be held in place as Y the sides of the casing, which should be sufficiently close to the edge of the tabletto lie outside of the margins of the paper belng fed.

While showing a machine with a tension roller located above the feed mechanism, it

. should be understood that we do not thereby indicate a desire for the invention to be limited to any particular type of arrangement for employing a sprocket feed. Thus the entire omission of the roller, the use of a device such as shown in the patent to John Q. Sherman, No. 1,259,918, dated March 19, 1918, or the use of any other known type or type to be developed of a sprocket feed machine would not depart from the spirit. of our invention.

So far as we are advised, we do not know of any instance in which there are strips of" difl'erent sizes, fed out of an autographic register at the same feeding operation, nor are we aware of any instance where the same feeding device has been employed for simultaneously feeding two strips of paper an unequal distance over a tablet plate in an autographic register. 7

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 1. In an autographic register, a feedin device for moving a plurality of films of paper over a writing surface, and then issuing them from the machine, and'means in connection with said feeding device for feedtaneously.

2. An autographic register for feeding a plurality ofstrips of paper comprising in paft a feeding device for engaging one side of a given strip of paper,and the other side common operator for one of said pin hearing bodies than the other.

4. In an autographic register, the combination with an operating device, of a pair of sprockets for feeding marginally perforated strips of paper, said operating device being connected to said sprockets in such a manner as to rotate at different speeds, whereby strips of paper may be employed having perforations on one side only. desired, such, as, for example, by provldmg slots therein for engaging over lugs 16 on.

sproc et to rotate it at a diiferent speed fromthe shaft, whereby different length of feed canbe applied to strips of paper, perforated for engagement with selected ones of the sprockets only. v

6. In an autographic register, the combination with a shaft, of a sprocket fixed to said shaft, a sprocket loose on said shaft, and gearing from the shaft to the loose sprocket to rotate it at a slower speed from the shaft, whereby different length of feed can be applied to strips of paper, perforated for engagement with selected ones of the sprockets only.

In an autographic register for feeding marginally perforated strips past a writing point and issuing them from the machine, a feeding device for simultaneously engaging a given number ofperforations for certain strips, and a less number of perforations for at least one other strip, for the purpose described.

8. In an autographic register, the combination of a pair of sprockets for engaging marginal perforations in strips of paper, said sprockets having equally spaced teeth,

and mounted each on one side of the said register, a common driving mechanism, and means positively connectlng each of said sprockets with the said common driving mechanism, said means adapted to impart different rate of speed of rotation to said sprockets, wherebfy stri s of paperhaving paper, fixed to said shaft, another like relatively arranged per orations 1n opposite sprocket loose on said shaft, a reducing gear margins thereof may be fed in alinement train driven by said shaft, said train in con- 10 but in diflerent sized sections. stant operative connection. with said loose 5 9. In an autographic register, the com- I sprocket, for the purpose described.

' bination with an operating shaft, of a JOHN Q. SHERMAN.

sprocket for feeding marginally perforated v ALBERT W. METZNER. 

